Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

It's easy to believe this common myth about recycling food plastic, but it's actually causing more harm to the environment ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. When Ohioans drop in or drop off their recyclables, they ...

If you live in one of the 10 U.S. states with a bottle deposit program, you’re probably familiar with the idea of feeding your empty plastic bottles or aluminum cans into a machine and getting a few ...

The Container Recycling Institute (CRI), Culver City, California, hosted a webinar last week to present legislative updates on container deposit laws (CDL), or “bottle bills,” in various states. The ...

Some items recycle easily: Milk jugs, plastic clamshell containers (depending on where you live), clean aluminum foil, and plastic water bottles with the caps on. Common recycling mistakes: Plastic ...

OLYMPIA — In another effort to boost recycling in Washington, a group of state legislators is advocating for a bill that would create a new system for recycling bottles and cans. House Bill 2144 would ...

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." A research team led by ...

Environmental and consumer rights organisations are taking legal action against Nestlé, Danone, and The Coca-Cola Company, over recyclable claims made about their plastic bottles. They have raised an ...

American Beverage, the Washington-based organization representing the nonalcoholic beverage industry in the U.S., recently marked the five-year anniversary of its Every Bottle Back program—an effort ...

Every year, millions of plastic bottles end up on streets, in rivers, and across open fields in communities that never had a ...